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The History Of Birth Control - Online Term Paper

The History Of Birth Control

Well we're not all little kids here, we know about sex, and we know
that we as humans like to have sex, unfortunately ( or fortunately depends
on how you look at it) the product of the horizontal polka is a sweet
little baby, and that might not always be wanted. So therefore we have
these neat things called contraceptives. The whole idea of contraceptives
is not a new one. People have been using birth control for thousands of
years, all the way back to Ancient Greece where linen condoms, dried fish
powder, and sea sponges were used, and while they may not have had the
efficacy rates of today's birth control devices, they had their uses at the
time. That being said, I would NOT recommend ...

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that we not discuss them here(trust me you
don't want to know).
Pessaries are vaginal suppositories. Used from ancient times to the
present, they can be a fairly effective form of birth control. In ancient
times, pessaries often contained acacia gum, which, while having some
possible spermacidal effect, very likely sealed up the cervix, making it
impossible for the sperm to pass through. This would make pessaries with
acacia gum more of a barrier than a spermacidal or contraceptive form of
birth control, but in the past they were not considered barriers. The
Kahun Papyrus, the oldest written document referring to birth control
measures that has been found to date, refers to a pesky of crocodile dung
and fermented dough( now I personally would not want crocodile crap and
some old dough to be put in my body). This document reportedly dates back
to around 1850 BC! Today pessaries usually come in the typical waxy form
of suppositories. They contain spermacides such as nonoxynol-9 and ...

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Added: 2/3/2006 02:24:27 AM
Category: Health & Medicine
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